Leprosy has existed since at least Biblical times, yet scientists still don't know exactly how Mycobacterium leprae causes the disease's symptoms. Though antibiotics can treat the illness, researchers ...
Leprosy. We’ve all heard of it, but do you really know what causes it? What does the word make you think of? A disease that people got a long, long time ago? A super-contagious condition that causes ...
Aerosol transmission between close asymptomatic contacts appears to be a key route of transmission for Mycobacterium leprae, and it likely contributes to its persistence within many affected countries ...
Leprosy, a devastating chronic disease caused by the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, was prevalent in Europe until the late Middle Ages. Today, the disease is found in 91 countries worldwide ...
In the southern region of the United States, such as in Louisiana and Texas, there are autochthonous cases of leprosy among native-born Americans with no history of foreign exposure. In the same ...
The discovery of Mycobacterium lepromatosis suggests leprosy was present in the Americas long before Europeans, altering the ...
The liver has an extensive regeneration capacity compared to other organs. However, repetitive injury—for instance, from chronic viral infection or the increasingly common nonalcoholic fatty liver ...
In order to understand the role of the upstream region of the Mycobacterium leprae 18-kDa gene on the gene regulation, the region was divided into two at the -50 position from the first start codon of ...
IN 1872 Hansen characterized Mycobacterium leprae as the causative agent in human leprosy. Hitherto, all attempts to cultivate this organism in vitro or to transmit it to experimental animals have met ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The activity of amoxicillin plus clavulanic acid Against logarithmically multiplying Mycobacterium leprae was evaluated by treating mice by ...
It has long been recognized that the pathogenicity of a broad range of intracellular parasites depends on the availability of transition metal ions, especially iron. Nramp1 (natural ...
Years-old tissue samples from armadillos in museum collections may harbor Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that causes Hansen's disease, also called leprosy, according to recent research my ...
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